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Visual Literacy in the Age Of the Common Core. Keith D. Schroeder District Library Media Specialist School District of Marinette Educational Consultant https:// todaysmeet.com / visualliteracy. Viual Literacy Basis. Death and Taxes Education Infographics. Our Audience.
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Visual Literacy in the AgeOf the Common Core Keith D. Schroeder District Library Media Specialist School District of Marinette Educational Consultant https://todaysmeet.com/visualliteracy
Viual Literacy Basis • Death and Taxes • Education Infographics
Our Audience • In the United States, the average teenager spends 22,000 hours watching television by the time he or she graduates from high school. • Humans process images an amazing 60,000 times faster than text. • According to Time magazine, the vocabulary of the average 14-year-old dropped from 25,000 words in 1950 to only 10,000 words in 1999.
Our Audience • Children 0 – 6 spend as much time in front of a screen as they do playing outside • One in 4 children under the age of 2 have a television in their bedroom • Videogame play has exceeded print media consumption • By age 21, spent 10,000 hours videogaming, received 200,000 texts, 10,000 cellphone talks, and read print material for under 5,000 hours
Why Visual Literacy? • Today’s environment is highly visual • Literacy relies not only on text and words • Highly dependent on digital images and sound • Fast becoming as important as textual literacy • Need to integrate it into the curriculum
Visual Literacy • Depends on technology • Requires artistic expression • Encourages storytelling • New language of expression • Incorporates pictures, words, sounds and video • Has high appeal for intended audience • Is collaborative/participatory
Visual Literacy Defined • Ability to understand and produce visual messages • Seeing something and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences • Ability to interpret messages as well as images for communicating ideas and concepts
Students who are visually literate: • Have working knowledge of visuals produced or displayed through electronic media; • Understand basic elements of visual design, technique, and media; • Are aware of emotional, psychological, and cognitive influences in perceptions of visuals; • Comprehend representational, explanatory, abstract, and symbolic images;
Students who are visually literate: • Apply knowledge of visuals in electronic media; • Are informed viewers, critics, and consumers of visual information; • Are knowledgeable designers, composers, and producers of visual information; • Are effective visual communicators; • Are expressive, innovative visual thinkers and successful problem solvers
Content • The sensory, subjective, psychological or emotional properties in response to an image. • The emotional or intellectual message, and theexpression, essential meaning, significance or aesthetic value of an image. • In exploring an image, were your initial observations based on facts, figures, or other information found within the image itself. • Does your observation of the image lead you to tell a story about the image
Context • The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc. This could include when a work of art was made, where, how and for what purpose. This could include historical information on the artist or issues or things the artist references. • Did you raise questions about who produced the image, how it has been utilized, where it has appeared? If so, then you may wish to further explore questions of the context of an image.
Creating Visuals • Smore • Thinglink • Designtaxi • Easel.ly • Block Posters • Piktochart
Visual Literacy Resources • Spyrestudios • Analyzing Images as Text • Visual Literacy Rubric • ACRL Visual Literacy • Visual Literacy Lesson Plans • Visual Literacy 7 – 12 • Jakes Visual Literacy Resources
Further Learning • Visual Literacy.org’s course • Edutopia’s interview with Martin Scorsese • Visualization methods
